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Sacramento faithful examines what religion teaches us about climate change
While children at Rancho Cordova’s Hagan Community Park played baseball, fished and watched ducks waddle on a glorious Saturday afternoon, Sacramento’s diverse interfaith community gathered to examine...
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Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto leads vast diocese with a smile
For its “Breaking Bread – Building Bridges” series on Feb. 22, Sacramento’s Mosaic Law Congregation welcomed a genial Roman Catholic to the synagogue’s pulpit. Bishops and rabbis rarely share the same...
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Faith and health care law to collide at Supreme Court
People can pray. Corporations cannot. But now the Supreme Court must decide whether impersonal, for-profit companies do enjoy religious rights that exempt them from providing contraceptives under the...
View ArticlePope announces 1st members of sex abuse commission
Pope Francis named the initial members of a commission to advise him on sex abuse policy Saturday, tapping lay and religious experts — and an Irish woman assaulted as a child by a priest — to start...
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No ticket? Other ways to view ordination of Sacramento’s auxiliary bishop
Roman Catholics can view the ordination of auxiliary Bishop-designate Myron J. Cotta Tuesday on television and at select viewing sites. Monsignor Myron Cotta was named auxiliary bishop of the...
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Auxiliary bishop ordained
Monsignor Myron J. Cotta, above, is anointed with oil by Bishop Jaime Soto during Cotta’s ordination as auxiliary bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento on Tuesday at the Cathedral of the...
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Pope and president all smiles, but Vatican official also raises religious...
President Barack Obama proclaimed himself a “great admirer” as he met Pope Francis for the first time Thursday, delivering a box of vegetable seeds from the White House garden, along with an invite to...
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Mormons gather for historic women's meeting
Mormon women gathered around the world this weekend for what leaders called a historic meeting of the faith. The Angel Moroni statue atop the Salt Lake Temple in Temple Square is silhouetted against...
View ArticleFolsom Chabad dedicates new Torah on Sunday
The public is invited Sunday to the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Folsom.
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Hospital’s patients are in good hands
Chaplain Hai Tran, above right, blesses the hands of nurse Hachelle Natano in the chapel at the Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center to mark the centers opening on Tuesday in Sacramento....
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Bible-reading programs in vogue, but fewer Americans overall reading Scripture
For a growing number of Protestant churches around the country, programs that encourage congregants to embark on Bible-reading curricula have become a steady trend. Bonnie Grotheer prays after a Bible...
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In Sacramento area, you can celebrate Easter at the lake, the river –...
For those who don’t want to sit in a pew to attend Easter Sunday services, there are options along the American River, at Folsom Lake and in the parking lot at the Roseville Galleria. Bonnie Grotheer...
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Gifts at Easter are latest bridge between Sacramento-area Muslims and Christians
To honor their Christian friends on Easter – a celebration of renewal – Muslim leaders in Sacramento will deliver 300 gifts at noon Saturday to The First Covenant Church in Rancho Cordova. Irfan Haq,...
View ArticleSacramento County supervisors reject Indian temple location near Galt
Sacramento County supervisors on Wednesday unanimously rejected a site just outside Galt for an Indian temple, saying that requirements proposed to placate angry neighbors were unworkable.
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Francis presides over historic day of 4 popes
Two 20th-century popes who changed the course of the Catholic Church became saints Sunday as Pope Francis honored John XXIII and John Paul II in a delicate balancing act aimed at bringing together the...
View ArticleCon man gets prison for San Diego church fraud
A former pastor and notorious con man was sentenced to five years in federal prison Monday for stealing $3.5 million from his San Diego church and its members, a tale of betrayal that a judge said made...
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At UN, Vatican sex abuse compared with torture
A U.N. committee compared the Vatican's handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal with torture Monday, raising the possibility that its failure to investigate clergy and their superiors could...
View ArticleArchbishop defends church teachings before U.N. panel, calls abortion...
The Vatican’s representative to a United Nations panel probing the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of child sexual abuse on Tuesday equated abortion to torture and said the U.N. panel’s focus on the...
View ArticleArchbishop defends church teachings before U.N. panel, calls abortion...
The Vaticans representative to a United Nations panel probing the Roman Catholic Churchs handling of child sexual abuse on Tuesday equated abortion to torture and said the U.N. panels focus on the...
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Pope OKs miracle for Paul VI in sainthood process
Pope Paul VI, who did much to modernize the Roman Catholic Church but pronounced a ban on artificial contraception which was widely defied by the faithful, has moved a step closer to sainthood with...
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